When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Very nice Sandi, all the more amazing coming from someone who was blind. She saw more in life through her blind eyes than many of us who have sight.
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If we build with wisdom, and with courage, and with patience, those that come after us will be helped by our work. Dwight Morrow
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing, the other is knowing where to find it. Samuel Johnson.
The second part of this quote is very familiar to me.
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Shortcuts can make for long delays....
Happiness is on the outside and thus fleeting: joy is on the inside and thus it is eternal. Dr. Neil Jackson
Joy comes when you stop focusing on yourself and start to focus on others. Dr. Neil Jackson
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. Washington Irving
Active natures are rarely melancholy; activity and sadness are incompatible. C.N. Bovee
Took time to find a few. These are relevant to my career as an Engineer.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar
For the new Engineers as well as the old!
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many times you have to think outside the box.
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth Blanchard
We have too many of the latter!
We can complain because the rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because the thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. William Penn
Something similar, but opposite.
"I'm not hungry, but I don't intend on getting that way!" my Dad.
"I'm not hungry, but I don't intend on getting that way!" my Dad.[/quote]
I can relate to this one. I have learned never to pass up a pit stop when you have the opportunity.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
H.W. Longfellow
We have a "Your View" section in our daily paper and this is from of the readers.
Fat Side Down
What do the federall government and you butcher have in common? Both package their wares with the fat side down, not discernable until you unwrap it. Billie Marcoux
Little acts of kindness, little words of love make our earth an eden like heaven above. Julia Carney
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. C. Kettering
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Our aim is not to do away with the corporations.....we draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth. Theodore Roosevelt
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. Mark Twain
A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; A man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head. Disraeli
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A sufficient and sure method of civilization is the influence of good women. R.W. Emerson
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The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. CV.N. Bovee
Not to like icecream is to show one self uninterested in food. Joseph Epstein Now this is a man after my own heart.
Let us not be too particular; It is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark twain
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world. Cervantes